after the trauma
JT caused quite a commotion at church a week in a half ago….
I was visiting in the Relief Society room after church when a ward friend approached me and said, "your son has fallen outside by the railing and there is quite a bit of blood." I quickly excused myself, taking a detour through the gym – whtere I ran, and found several people huddled around Stephen and bloody JT. I snatched the keys from Stephen and we ran to the car. I was preparing to drive to the ER, but Stephen confidently said he felt like we should go home. As we drove he surveyed the situation and noticed that his eyes looked good and didn't appear to have a fracture. JT''s head had quite a good slice and his nose was bleeding profusely. There was plenty of blood on both white shirts as proof.
As we drove home we learned that Mason was with JT and told us that Jt had been climbing on the metal railing and fell, landing on the pavement face first. Mason was nervous and let the nearest mom take over. We all learned good lessons – that don't need to be readdressed here.
After pulling into the garage, we set up our doctor office complete with clean cloths, hydrogen peroxide, cotton balls, and super glue. Dr. Parker went to work and I was the nurse. The other kids were on prayer duty. After 30 minutes, a douse of Ibuprofen, and a squirt of super glue, the band aide was applied and JT was looking at his tractor book.
Soon our door bell rang with concerned friends to see if they could help. We then discovered that 2-3 people at the church, after seeing the large amount of blood, had passed out. We learned that they were fine and were relieved. The blood had been cleaned up and our ward family and come to the rescue. We said our good-byes as JT ran through the house looking for his cars.
As the week progressed he got a couple of other knocks to the head – definitely not to that degree, but they did leave marks on the other side of his head.
He has one tough head, but part of me keeps thinking about sticking a helmet on him!
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